Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-10-23
MILL NOTES.

Charlotte Furnace, OF Scottdale, Pa,
has resumed blast, after being idle nearly
all summer.
The Bethel PA Iron Company has
adopted oil fuel, under the Archer patents,
for their relocating furnaces.
The Little rolling mill, in East st. Louis,
resumed operations in all departments
last week.
IL is reported that an additional rod
mill is to be built by the John A. Roe
bliug's Sons Company, at Trenton, n. J.
The Crescent nail mill, Belleville, is
turning out 900 kegs daily. The HarIi-
son machine works, at the same place,
resumed operations last Monday.
Our English exchanges report the iron
and steel trades to be in fairly robust
state so far as the amount Of business Is
concerned, but the prices are complained
OF as unremuneratiye.
The Laclede Rolling Mill, st. Louis,
which has been idle for two weeks, re-
sumed operations last Monday with the
| bar and guide mills and scrap and pud-
ding furnaces, with the same force and
all departments previously active.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
Of the Pennsylvania Steel Company was
held in Philadelphia last week. 1t was
decided TO increase the capital stock from
s., 500, 900 to g, 600, 900, and to create a
mortgage OF 81, 600, 600 on the property.
The blast furnace and rolling mill is to
be erected at Duluth, Mimi, by a syndi-
| cate of capitalists. The blast furnace will
be of moderate SIZE intended to produce
seventy five tons daily of coke pig iron.
A large steel plant is also talked Of by the
same parties.
The Fort Pitt Carbon Iron Company,
Pittsburg has just erected a new squeezer
and train of muck rolls, to roll the iron
made by the direct process Of DR.. Eames.
This company is more extensively en-
gagged in making iron from the raw ore
than any other company in this country.
The directors Of the Warren, O., Tube
Works have bonded the works in the sum
OF 1926, 900, three-fOurths OF which, il is
expected, the present stockholders will
| take. At meeting of the stockholders
| in Akron this action was ratified. This
action was taken in order to secure greater
| facilities for successful operators.
The Halmbacher Forge and Rolling Mills
Company, st. Louis, are operating their
several departments at moderately active
rate. Heavy shapewOrk, however, has
probably disappeared for this season. The
| Mcdonald rolling mills were also running
last Monday, notwithstanding the litiga-
ton they have fallen into by q desire tor
dissolution OF partnership.
Dun's Mercantile Agency report for the
week, made public on the 18th, says:
Steel rails are again lower; sales were made
last week for S3l, spring delivery, and
some makers are urging a general stoppage
of the works Pig iron, No. foun dry,
continues scarce because of the Lehigh coal
strike, but lower quotations come for grey
forge and also for bar iron.
SCaruegie, Phipps & Co., Pittsburg, will
| build the entire hull of cruiser No. 4, for
the construction of which CaliforDians took
the contract, They are also building the
hull Of the Charleston. Their contracts
include the boiler plate and protective
deck plate, the whole aggregating several
thousand tons Of steel.
The Linden Steel Company, Pittsburg,
have an order for 100 tons of i to 2!-inch
protective deck-plates. The plates are for
/ the two cruisers which VIM. Cramp & Sons
are building for the Government. The
company will also make $50 tons OF hull
plates. They are still having wonderful
success in meeting the requirements of the
| Government.
The Union Steel Company, of Chicago,
has been steadily pushing its works up to
their capacity, with a continuously in
Creasing production. Its output of steel
| rails in September surpassed that Of any
previous month, falling but a few tons
short of II, 900 gross tons Its best "a
hours work in that time was 922 gross
tons In the actual number Of rails rolled
| this was not the best day, the difference
| being due to the kind Of rails made.
The creditors of AllderiCe, Bishop & Co,
who recently suspended operation in War
rem, o., have placed the rolling mill in the
hands of five trustees: l.. Raney, of New
Castle; W. ID. McKeefrcy, OF Sharon; Geo.
Reeves, OF Niles; II. Il. Perkins and Ii. c.
| Christy, of Warren. They are to operate
It Jointly with Henry Wick, of Warren.
Mr.. Wick is to put in $50, 900 to complete
the plant, and is to be paid a salary OF Si,-
600 per year ms manager, He is to have
three years in which to pay the claims OF
creditors and if all the Indebtedness is
paid at that time, the plant is to revert to
him; It is expected to have the mil! in
readiness tor operation within month.
The second convention OF the American
Federation of Labor will he held in Baiti-
more on December Is next, as will be noted
by the call Of the Executive Council pub
lished elsewhere in the National Labor Tn
buRs. The information regarding the orga-
uization and the necessity which exists to
push its affairs are set forth briefly but
eompreheusiyely in the call. 1t is taken
for granted that arrangements will he made
without delay by all unions in interest to
select their most capable and available
members rs delegates. The Federation is
we'll worth all the work that will be re-
quired to bring it up TO the standard of
efficiency contemplated upOn its proiec-
ton. Pittsburgh Labor Tribune.